GeForce FX 5100 vs HD Graphics 400

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared HD Graphics 400 with GeForce FX 5100, including specs and performance data.

HD Graphics 400
2015
8 GB DDR3L, 6 Watt
1.13
+5550%

HD Graphics 400 outperforms FX 5100 by a whopping 5550% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking10751489
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency13.13no data
ArchitectureGeneration 8.0 (2014−2015)Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code nameBraswell GT1NV34 A1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 April 2015 (9 years ago)6 March 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores96no data
Core clock speed320 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed600 MHzno data
Number of transistors189 million45 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)6 Wattno data
Texture fill rate7.2000.8
Floating-point processing power0.1152 TFLOPSno data
ROPs24
TMUs124

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfaceRing BusAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR3LDDR
Maximum RAM amount8 GB64 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared64 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared166 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data2.656 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsPortable Device Dependent1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0a
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.31.5 (2.1)
OpenCL3.0N/A
Vulkan+N/A

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 1.13 0.02
Recency 1 April 2015 6 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 64 MB
Chip lithography 14 nm 150 nm

HD Graphics 400 has a 5550% higher aggregate performance score, an age advantage of 12 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 971.4% more advanced lithography process.

The HD Graphics 400 is our recommended choice as it beats the GeForce FX 5100 in performance tests.

Be aware that HD Graphics 400 is a notebook card while GeForce FX 5100 is a desktop one.


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